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the race is streaming live coverage of the men's marathon, with video cams at the finish line of the full and 1/2 marathons. they also have an athlete tracking system for live results.

see website: http://www.rnrseattle.com/

a few FRBers in the race:

Sean Sundwall (1/2) - bib 6
Paul Petersen (1/2) - bib 7
James Moore - "fiddy" (full)  - bib 1028
Mike Davis - ''rattletrap" (full) - bib 2086 OR 13291

anyone else that i am missing, feel free to post.

Results:

  Paul 1:08:15 5th
  Sean 1:08:58 7th

Congrats guys !

james is nearly finished. 2:21:12 at 40K. holy cow! he has sped up since the half.

oh, AND he is on the top 10 list on the leaderboard page.  :)

James finished in 2:35:18, 10th place, and a PR!

The 40 K split has to be wrong. There is no way he would open in 1:17, then speed up to a 31 minute 10 K from 30 K to 40 K, and then take 14 minutes to get to the finish. Very highly unlikely for a number of reasons. If you have a 31 minute 10 K late in the race, it would be very difficult to run the first three slower than 33:00 average. And if you speed up to a 31 minute 10 K you will most likely hold some semblance of that pace it for another 2 K. You could, of course, start getting light headed and throwing up from that effort, and struggle to survive, but 99.(9)% of the time the struggle will show itself earlier in some form. More likely that he just held a steady pace all the way through. 

Yeah, I agree, the 40k split and time from 40k to finish don't add up properly for his pace.

Anyone know why their elite coverage seemed to just show the men's race?  I watched from mile 20 until the top two finished, then the feed stopped and it said the elite coverage had finished.  I thought after the top men finished they would then follow the top women, but no.  Any alternate explanation, besides the obvious sexism?

Michelle, I watched quite a bit, and its was very badly covered. Only the marathon. Did not show the Half leaders at any moment, not even when they finished. Women, were not covered. period. I think it just lack of judgement!  There should of been 4 elite coverages: men half, women half, men full, women full.

Congrats to all the finishers!

Thanks guys! The 40K split was wrong because it was about 800 meters after a turnaround and they got us on the way out and not the way back. In general this race was well organized, especially considering its the first year. But sheesh, some of those mile points were out of whack.

congratulations to all. yeah, i was blown away when the 40K split popped up. LOL. i just thought james had been conserving and all of a sudden decided to run some monster miles. :) even so, awesome finish!!!

and i agree the coverage was horrible...and only covering the men's race? silly.  :(

2086 appears to be our Mike Davis. Something went wrong - he was running a steady pace through the first 9 miles, and then he was abducted by the aliens. Maybe an injury. Or maybe timing system malfunction.

Hope its the alien theory ..    :P ;D

There was a camera crew on the lead half marathon pack and on the lead marathon pack...men's. It didn't occur to me at the time as odd, but now I suppose it was. Too bad, because the women's race for 1st/2nd was pretty tight, and the finish time (2:38) was better than the men's finish time (2:18). 2:38 was blistering on that course. At least the women got good coverage in the Seattle Times the next day.

Yeah, I read the article.  The winner was pretty impressive, esp since her career is not sedentary.  I wonder if she'll back off the dancing now to get better sleep and revolve her life around running more. 

I held that pace through mile 11 on the bridge when my knee started acting up and I decided to drop out. I was pretty disappointed given that I was feeling good otherwise and really expected to finish strong at that pace. My only worry before the start was failing cardio-wise after taking so much time off in June. I guess I'm not really as young as I feel anymore.

Sorry to hear that Mike. Really wanted you to BQ on this race.